Lakers Get More GOOD NEWS on Sandro Mamukelashvili Ahead of Lakers Training Camp!

And alright, like I said, Mamou is coming off a very good, impressive FIBA World Cup qualifying play.

Again, only two games, but the fact that he was kind of their number one option, did the most for their team, created for himself and teammates on the court, there's a lot to like about Mamou Kalashvili.

Not to mention the confidence, you know, oftentimes when international players go back to play for their home country, whether it be in the Olympic play, FIBA World Cup play, Eurobasket play, any combination of them, they do tend to come back pretty confident.

I mean, look at a guy like Dennis Schroeder.

So for Mamou, coming into a new situation, a new team, and maybe a little bit different of a role, I think he'll be entering it very confident.

And coming off a career year for himself, not in the Eurobasket or FIBA World Cup competition, but in the NBA last season, I would say there's a lot of momentum for him.

Playing with Toronto, playing in 80, out of a possible 82 games not to mention, great durability, putting up over 11 points per game in only 21.9 minutes per game, I mean looking at per 36 minute average, that's over 18 per game.

A guy that wasn't a number 1, number 2, even a number 3 option.

Oftentimes, he was simply the off-ball catch and shoot guy, the off-ball guy that would catch it, either shoot it or then drive to the rim, he created a lot for himself.

Yes, he benefited from a fairly good team around him, more so on defense than offense, but Mamou Kalashvili was not a centerpiece of that offense, and yet, he found a way to be productive, impactful, and not to mention, efficient all at the same time.

With the 11.2 points per game, Mamu shot 52.3% from the field and 38.9% from beyond the arc, attempting 4 of them per game in 21.9 minutes per game.

Again, per 36 on the court, over 6 three-point shot attempts.

So that high a volume? Again, for example, in comparison to Rui Echimura, roughly 2 more of them per game than what Rui took per 36 minutes on the court.

Yes, a little bit less efficient, but...

Then again, I think that's kind of what we wanted from Rui.

To take more of them per game, even at the expense of a little bit less efficiency.

So that's kind of what you're getting with Mamu.

He'll take more of them per game, he'll take more contested ones per game, just for the fact that if they need him to shoot, it's better that he would take it rather than kick it again at the end of the shot clock.

So for Mamu, he definitely can and will fill that role.

And looking at the shooting chart for him, last season, beginning with the wide open shot variety, something that, you know, we've talked about with Theibel, Sire Williams, and how good they are doing at that, but maybe not so great at the contested shots.

That's a little bit different from Amu.

Of course, everyone tends to be a good shooter when they're completely wide open, and for Mamou, that did happen to be the case.

But it even got better when he was a little bit more contested.

But looking at the wide open shot variety, when a defender was near 6 feet of him, Mamou Kalashvili shot 37.8% from the 3 point line.

of which he shot 2.8 per game.

And alright, like I said, Mamou is coming off a very good, impressive FIBA World Cup qualifying play.

Again, only two games, but the fact that he was kind of their number one option, did the most for their team, created for himself and teammates on the court, there's a lot to like about Mamou Kalashvili.

Not to mention the confidence, you know, oftentimes when international players go back to play for their home country, whether it be in the Olympic play, FIBA World Cup play, Eurobasket play, any combination of them, they do tend to come back pretty confident.

I mean, look at a guy like Dennis Schroeder.

So for Mamou, coming into a new situation, a new team, and maybe a little bit different of a role, I think he'll be entering it very confident.

And coming off a career year for himself, not in the Eurobasket or FIBA World Cup competition, but in the NBA last season, I would say there's a lot of momentum for him.

Playing with Toronto, playing in 80, out of a possible 82 games not to mention, great durability, putting up over 11 points per game in only 21.9 minutes per game, I mean looking at per 36 minute average, that's over 18 per game.

A guy that wasn't a number 1, number 2, even a number 3 option.

Oftentimes, he was simply the off-ball catch and shoot guy, the off-ball guy that would catch it, either shoot it or then drive to the rim, he created a lot for himself.

Yes, he benefited from a fairly good team around him, more so on defense than offense, but Mamou Kalashvili was not a centerpiece of that offense, and yet, he found a way to be productive, impactful, and not to mention, efficient all at the same time.

With the 11.2 points per game, Mamu shot 52.3% from the field and 38.9% from beyond the arc, attempting 4 of them per game in 21.9 minutes per game.

Again, per 36 on the court, over 6 three-point shot attempts.

So that high a volume? Again, for example, in comparison to Rui Echimura, roughly 2 more of them per game than what Rui took per 36 minutes on the court.

Yes, a little bit less efficient, but...

Then again, I think that's kind of what we wanted from Rui.

To take more of them per game, even at the expense of a little bit less efficiency.

So that's kind of what you're getting with Mamu.

He'll take more of them per game, he'll take more contested ones per game, just for the fact that if they need him to shoot, it's better that he would take it rather than kick it again at the end of the shot clock.

So for Mamu, he definitely can and will fill that role.

And looking at the shooting chart for him, last season, beginning with the wide open shot variety, something that, you know, we've talked about with Theibel, Sire Williams, and how good they are doing at that, but maybe not so great at the contested shots.

That's a little bit different from Amu.

Of course, everyone tends to be a good shooter when they're completely wide open, and for Mamou, that did happen to be the case.

But it even got better when he was a little bit more contested.

But looking at the wide open shot variety, when a defender was near 6 feet of him, Mamou Kalashvili shot 37.8% from the 3 point line.

of which he shot 2.8 per game.